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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event MKC78FTG08

1978-06-01 GRAND FORKS, North Dakota, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N101CU

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

DJI MATRICE 600 PRO

0

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A008B0

Registrant of record

CAUSEY AVIATION SERVICE INC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N101CU Beech C55 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

BEECH C55 · N101CU

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

Takeoff — initial climb (C1)

Operator type

Personal/private

Airport

GRAND FORKS INTL

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000000TE-22

Total time

980 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

1,150

Age

41

Investigator remarks

CABIN DOOR CAME UNLATCHED.

Cause factors

74/C/CB C
POWERPLANT LINES AND FITTINGS Cause
88/C/AJ C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS LEAK/LEAKAGE Cause
88/B/DG B
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS INTENTIONAL WHEELS-UP
84/L/E L
MISCELLANEOUS SMOKE IN COCKPIT

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 1862. Source file NTSB_1978_3_1862.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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